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Mel Ahlborn
President and CEO
Mel Ahlborn
specializes in manuscript illumination
and is a frequent lecturer on the history and
production techniques of illuminated manuscripts.
Her fine art exhibitions include the Washington National
Cathedral, The Getty Center, the British Library, Oxford
College, and the Palace of the Legion of Honor.
Mel is an elected Fellow of the Center for Arts,
Religion, and Education (CARE) at The Graduate
Theological Union in Berkeley, California, teaching
Studio Arts courses in Manuscript Illumination and
Visual Preaching. Interweaving
the arts, spirituality, and religion throughout
her career, she has served as a consultant to museums, film
companies, and academic institutions.
Mel resides with her
husband, Paul, and their two children, in Moraga,
California.
E-mail:
mahlborn@ecva.org
Web site:
www.illuminationstudio.org
Parish: St Stephen’s Episcopal Church
- Orinda, CA
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Thomas Moore, III
Vice President
Thomas Moore serves as Vice President
for the ECVA Board of Directors, and was recently appointed as the
Executive Director of the Society for the Increase of the Ministry
(SIM). He has also worked with the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral
in the United States (FOCCUS); the Church Pension Group (CPG); and
the Episcopal Church Center in New York.
Tom
is married to the Rev. Helen M. Moore, a priest of the Episcopal
Church. Helen has served parishes in Massachusetts,
Illinois, Ohio, Connecticut, and Virginia. In addition to
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The Rev. Robert L.
Tate
Treasurer
Bob Tate joined the ECVA Board in 2003
and serves as Treasurer and as Supervising Board Member to the
Visio Divina program. Throughout his distinguished career in
church service, Bob has earned recognition for his work in
outreach, social justice, youth and young adult ministry, and
stewardship.
In 1984 he was called to be rector of
St. Martin in
the Fields Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill. Bob currently is
Chairman of the Board of
Servant Year, an Americorps urban ministry program in the
Diocese of Pennsylvania. He formerly chaired the Program Board of The Cathedral College of
Washington
National Cathedral and served on the board of "Need in Deed."
E-mail:
rtate@stmartinec.org |
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Clay
Morris
Secretary
E-mail:
cmorris@episcopalchurch.org |
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Ken Arnold
Board Member
Ken Arnold is a deacon in the
Episcopal Church (retired), a playwright, poet, and author of
books about religion who has been a publisher in university and
religious publishing for over forty years. Most recently he headed
Church Publishing Incorporated, the publisher for the Episcopal
Church.
In 1979, Ken was a fellow at the Eugene O'Neill National
Playwrights Conference, where he developed She Also Dances,
which was cited in Best Plays of 1983. He has also published poems
in numerous national magazines and three books on spirituality:
On the Way (Church Publishing Inc.), Night Fishing in
Galilee (Cowley Publications/Rowman & Littlefield) and
Circle of the Way (KenArnoldBooks).
Web Site:
http://www.kenarnoldbooks.com/home |
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Jerry
Hames
Board Member
Jerry Hames, Canadian-born journalist,
spent his more than four-decade-long career writing about
religious life and a multitude of Christian events and activities.
He was religion writer for two Canadian newspapers, served for 22
years in communications positions with the Anglican Church of
Canada, and retired in 2007 as editor of Episcopal Life, a
position held for more than 17 years.
His interests have included research
and program planning for religious television, providing media
services for a national halfway house movement in Canada, and
promoting a drama program and arts contest for incarcerated men
and women. In 2007, he was named recipient of the Jeannette Pierce
Award by Episcopal Communicators for outstanding commitment to
excellence in church communication. He is an honorary life member
of both the Canadian Church Press and the Associated Church Press.
E-mail:
jerrold.hames@gmail.com
Parish: Trinity Episcopal Church, Princeton,
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Phoebe Griswold
ECVA Co-Founder
Phoebe Griswold is co-founder of the
ECVA Board of Directors with Gurdon Brewster and continues to
serve as a Board Member. She serves as a
delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Woman,
representing the United States. Honored as the 2002 Humanitarian
of the Year by New York Public Television, Mrs. Griswold is the
wife of retired Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold.
Her passion for the needs of others
led her to convene AWE (Anglican Women’s Empowerment) which calls
for an expanded women's presence on all Anglican Communion
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Gurdon Brewster
ECVA Co-Founder |
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Brie Dodson
Artist Outreach
Brie
Dodson is a realist painter who seeks to evoke the
“unseen eternal” in the subjects she portrays. She
paints the Virginia countryside, its open skies, and
rural denizens: horses, farm animals, and the birds
outside her studio window. Brie also paints about
religious and spiritual subjects. Her work
has been featured in Gallery & Studio, The Living
Church, Art and Christianity, Manhattan Arts, and other
publications. Brie's art has been exhibited at various
venues in New York City, Washington, D.C., and several
states; and her work resides in many private
collections. She served
as ECVA Director of Communications
from 2005 to 2007.
Brie
lives in Virginia. Her family includes husband, Tom, and
four sons.
E-mail:
bdodson@briedodson.com
Web site:
www.briedodson.com
Parish: Trinity Episcopal Church - Upperville, VA
View artwork by Brie
Dodson
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Jan Neal
Exhibitions Director
Jan
Neal has a background in traditional art mediums, but
now works primarily in digital mediums because of their
immensely creative
potential. Her work has been featured in Episcopal Life,
Morehouse Publishing Christian Planning Calendar, The
Apostle, and in an ECVA presentation at the Museum of
Biblical Art. Jan's graphic interpretation of Christian
symbols is included in the Image Shop on The Episcopal
Church (TEC) web site.
She served as curator for the ECVA exhibition
"Illustrating The Hours" in 2005, and was one
of three curators for Visual
Preludes 2006.
Jan produces the publicity for
her home parish,
Emmanuel, where she also serves as webmaster, in ECW,
the Garden and Altar Guilds, and heads the Flower Guild.
E-mail:
jboydneal@charter.net
Web site:
http://digitalartadvocate.squarespace.com/
Parish: Emmanuel Episcopal Church -
Opelika, AL
View artwork by Jan
Neal
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Ruth Councell
Chapters Director
Ruth Tietjen Councell is an artist and
illustrator, who, at various times, has specialized in drawing and
painting, graphic design, children’s illustration, and botanical
art. Between 1986 and 1997, she illustrated six books for children,
some of which earned honors. Ruth was a member of the Western
Massachusetts Illustrators Guild. Her illustrations have been
exhibited at Michelson’s Gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Her botanical illustrations have been exhibited at Seabury Western
School of Theology in Evanston, Illinois, and prints of her
botanicals are available at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
She has taught drawing and painting to children and adults.
Ruth is the chair of the New Jersey
chapter of ECVA.
E-mail:
chapters@ecva.org
Parish: Trinity Episcopal
Cathedral, Trenton, NJ and
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church,
Pennington, NJ
View artwork by
Ruth Councell |
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C. Robin Janning
Director of Communications
Robin confesses that the first image
she loved was that of words on a simple printed page. Time passes, we grow, and our first
loves evolve. Robin's simple printed pages have moved to the
internet and various web spaces. After a career as a technical
writer and editor, words have now entered into a partnership with
color and line in the form of abstract art. "At its
best" she says, "abstract art is called forth by a word, or words, from the
soul, and goes on to call a word, or words, from the soul of the
viewer."
Robin lives in Michigan with her
husband Bill. She has one daughter, Eujenia, who
lives in Denver with her husband Will and their several cats.
Robin also serves as Registrar for The Artists Registry (ECVA).
E-mail:
crjanning@twmi.rr.com
Web Site:
www.gramercygalleria.com
Parish: St. John's Episcopal
Church - Plymouth, MI
View artwork by C.
Robin Janning |
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The mission of
The Episcopal Church and Visual Arts
(ECVA) is to encourage artists, individuals, congregations, and scholars
to engage the visual arts in the spiritual life of the church. ECVA values
the significance of visual imagery in spiritual formation and the
development of faith, and creates programs to support those who are
engaged in using the visual arts in spiritual life.
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